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Al-Zoubi, Musa (author)Perovskite/Silicon tandem cells are gradually becoming more promising in the field of photovoltaic technology since they have already surpassed the theoretical power conversion efficiency (PCE) limit of single junction (SJ) silicon cells (~30%), while they can be commercially compatible. Several architectures of Perovskite/silicon devices were...master thesis 2022
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Kovačević, Katarina (author)Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells are one of the most promising PV technologies nowadays due to high photoconversion efficiencies and low manufacturing costs. However, standard front/back-contacted (FBC) solar cells feature a front metal grid that brings shading to the front side of the devices, which limits the conversion efficiency of...master thesis 2022
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Hou, ChengLi (author)Silicon solar cells account for about 95% of the total photovoltaic market share. Poly-Si passivating contacts are promising techniques enabling high performance c-Si solar cells with conversion efficiency over 26.0%. The highly absorptive nature of poly-Si materials makes the transparent passivating contacts attractive, such as poly-Si(O<sub>x<...master thesis 2022
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Zhang, Jing (author)In recent decades, there has been increasing concern about the impact of climate change on the earth. Various countries are actively developing sustainable energy technologies, of which solar cell is one of the new energy sources with the most attention. This thesis is based on poly−Si(O<sub>x</sub>) cells consisting of SiO<sub>x</sub>/poly−Si(O...master thesis 2022
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Vishwanathreddy, Sujith V (author)People worldwide have begun to feel the effects of climate change in recent years with unpredictable weather patterns, heatwaves, changes in precipitation, and sea level rise. To help mitigate climate change, photovoltaics (PV) is seen as a technology with the tremendous capability to satisfy the world’s electricity demands by tapping into...master thesis 2022
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Kuppuswamy Saravanan, Pavithran (author)In 2022, the Power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells has achieved an efficiency of >25\%. The cost-effective and flexible perovskite-based photovoltaic has been identified as an ideal solution to increase the integration of photovoltaics in buildings. However, for a large scale implementation, the perovskite photovoltaic must...master thesis 2022
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Sambamurthy, Sriram (author)The world is in need for an energy transition from the usage of fossil fuels to renewable energy source to reduce the harmful effects climate and health. Focusing on accelerating the research and development of photovoltaic technologies is an important step towards energy transition. The thin-film silicon solar modules has shown a great...master thesis 2022
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Blackstone, Thijs (author)A next step in the energy transition is to produce green fuels from sunlight. One way to achieve this is via high voltage photovoltaic (PV) devices which can directly drive electrolysis reactions to produce hydrogen or other chemical fuels. Group IV based multijunction (MJ) PV devices are a candidate to function as these high voltage devices.<br...master thesis 2022
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Shaikh, Raiyan (author)Emerging PV technologies like Perovskite has lead to the development of Perovskite/Silicon (Pvk/c-Si) tandem device (Multi-junction device) and has now gained a lot of momentum and attention due to the fact that the tandem device can reach a Shockley-Quisser limit of about 44.1% efficiency. But to speed up its development, a lot of emphasis is...master thesis 2022
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Kerklaan, Mels (author)Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are an emerging and promising photovoltaic technology that have demonstrated impressive power conversion efficiencies exceeding 25% after only fourteen years of development. This rapid progress can mostly be attributed to the development and optimisation of PSCs fabricated by solution-based methods, because of their...master thesis 2022
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Wagner, Fabian (author)Crystalline silicon (c-Si) homojunction architectures like aluminum back-surface field (Al-BSF) and passivated emitter and rear cell (PERC) dominated the solar cell market for the last decades. Recently, carrier-selective passivating contact (CSPC) designs have shown that they can effectively reduce recombination losses and exhibit efficiencies...master thesis 2022
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Ahmed Bakrelsedik Mohamed Ahmed, Ahmed (author)Efficient utilization of energy generation techniques is gaining more prominence in the design and engineering of built structures. One of the most established techniques used is through solar energy-harnessing via photovoltaic technology. In this research, integrating photovoltaics is further explored in the textile architecture domain to...master thesis 2022
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Han, C. (author)In the efficiency-driven photovoltaic (PV) industry, the market dominating crystalline silicon (c-Si) technology has been developing towards PV devices with carrier-selective passivating contacts (CSPCs). Especially, the silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell, based on hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) contact stacks, and the poly-Si...doctoral thesis 2022
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Rath, Chinmaya (author)With an increase in population, there is increasing pressure and higher demand in world energy production. Even though there is a high dependency on fossil fuels renewable energy usage has seen a sharp rise in recent years. Solar energy is a major player and contributes a lot to this field. The thin-film solar cell which is a part of second...master thesis 2022
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Aghaei, Mohammadreza (author), Korevaar, Marc (author), Babal, Pavel (author), Ziar, H. (author)In this chapter, we introduce the physic principle and applications of bifacial PV technology. We present different bifacial PV cell and module technologies as well as investigate the advantages of using bifacial PV technology in the field. We describe the measurement and modeling of Albedo, which is one of the important factors for the energy...book chapter 2022
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van Heerden, Rik (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Santbergen, R. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Organic-inorganic metal halide perovskites have attracted a considerable interest in the photovoltaic scientific community demonstrating a rapid and unprecedented increase in conversion efficiency in the last decade. Besides the stunning progress in performance, the understanding of the physical mechanisms and limitations that govern perovskite...journal article 2022
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Rahimi, Serveh (author), Shooshtari, M. (author)Here we investigated a novel layer-based optimization technique to improve the performance of a CZTSe solar cell. By using this technique, the optical behavior and electrical properties of the proposed solar cell improved significantly as a result of the changes in the layer specifications and the layer materials. The structure of the cell...journal article 2022
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Han, C. (author), Yang, G. (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), O'Connor, D. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Gopalakrishnan, Anirudh (author), Zhang, Xiaodan (author), Zeman, M. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Bifacial (BF) copper-plated crystalline silicon solar cell is an attractive topic to concurrently reduce silver consumption and maintain good device performance. However, it is still challenging to realize a high aspect ratio (AR) of the metal fingers. Herein, a new type of hybrid-shaped Cu finger is electromagnetically fabricated in a BF...journal article 2022
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Chen, N. (author), Rudolph, Dominik (author), Peter, Christoph (author), Zeman, M. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Rosen, Yitzchak (author), Grouchko, Michael (author), Shochet, Ofer (author), Mihailetchi, Valentin D. (author)The high usage of silver in industrial solar cells may limit the growth of the solar industry. One solution is to replace Ag with copper. A screen printable Cu paste is used herein to metallize industrial interdigitated back contact (IBC) solar cells. A novel metallization structure is proposed for making solar cells. Cu paste is applied to...journal article 2022
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Datta, Kunal (author), Branco, Bruno (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Zardetto, Valerio (author), Phung, Nga (author), Bracesco, Andrea (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Wienk, Martijn M. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Solar-assisted water electrolysis is a promising technology for storing the energy of incident solar irradiation into hydrogen as a fuel. Here, an integrated continuous flow electrochemical reactor coupled to a monolithic perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell is demonstrated that provides light-driven electrochemical solar-to-hydrogen...journal article 2022